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Visually beautiful gaming in a casual environment.Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:24:27 -0500en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8116843759Dragon-Fall 2018 Charity Raffle- Final Prize Posthttps://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2018/10/12/dragon-fall-2018-charity-raffle-final-prize-post/
https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2018/10/12/dragon-fall-2018-charity-raffle-final-prize-post/#respondFri, 12 Oct 2018 11:24:27 +0000https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/?p=7335Dragon-Fall 2018 is next week! This will be our last prize post, but there are still more items coming in, so please come see us and help us raise money for Child's Play Charity!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Cardboard Dynamo donated a voucher for their upcoming game Giga-Robo, including 4 resin alternate posed mechs.

Cheapass Games donated these board games

Board Game Barrister donated this selection of games.

Woodland Scenics donated this set of basing materials.

Michael Bradshaw donated all of this cool stuff

Red Raven Games donated this KS edition of Empire of the Voids II

The Adventurer's Atlas donated these gaming maps

WETA Workshop donated this copy of GKR: Heavy Hitters

We have SO MANY things to give away. There are 2 different paths to win prizes, so come out and spend some money to help Child's Play! We'll see you at Dragon-Fall 2018!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Elderwood Academy donated these awesome spellbooks and dice boxes.

Hellsgate Haunted House donated these passes.

Old Glory donated these miniatures.

There is more stuff to announce! Come see us and help raise money for Child's Play at Dragon-Fall!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Twilight Creations donated some board games.

Chicago Comics donated this mystery box full of comics. There are some great items in here!

Roxley donated both editions of Brass, and some fancy metal counters to go with them.

Chicago Skirmish Wargames donated these headphones.

Happy Seppuku donated a selection of basing stamps.

Scale Creep miniatures donated these books and painted minis.

Magpie Games donated some books.

Impact Miniatures donated 2 sets of their unusually sized dice.

There is more stuff to announce! Come see us and help raise money for Child's Play at Dragon-Fall!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Lost Mountain Adventure Golf donated some passes

Copper Fiddle Distillery donated a tour and tasting package for 10.

Miniature Market donated a warlord battle titan.

Level 257 donated a bunch of gift cards.

Cards Against Humanity donated a full game package.

DIce of Rolling donated sets of tokens and dice.

There is more stuff to announce! Come see us and help raise money for Child's Play at Dragon-Fall!

Join us for a night of Miniatures, RPGs and Board Games accompanied by excellent food and drink. Eris Brewery and Cider House (http://www.erischicago.com) is graciously hosting our little event in their mezzanine, and we could not be happier about it! They have a great venue and a fantastic menu to coincide with our gaming and charity raffle.

Dragon-Fall 2018 (http://www.dragon-fall.com) is the Midwest's premiere tabletop and digital gaming event. It is held in Elmhurst, IL, outside Chicago over the weekend of October 20. To celebrate the event's 4th anniversary, we have partnered with the Child's Play Charity to help improve the lives of children in hospitals and shelters:

Child's Play (http://www.childsplaycharity.org/) is dedicated to improving the lives of children in hospitals and domestic abuse shelters around the world through the kindness and generosity of the video game community and the power of play.

With our help, they will purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

Gods of Fire expands on Ghost Archipelago with a mix of various elements. There are new treasures and bestiary, as well as rules for small boats. The more remarkable sections are a chapter on making and playing as various tribal groups and three campaigns where players play tribes along side the standard Ghost Archipelago crews.

The new monsters include some interesting challenges fitting to the fire theme like fire eels, salamanders, and the Kraken, a giant monster that will probably work best with a scenario built around it. There are a couple of new sentient races such as the Cathaka- bird people. I'm hoping some figures are made to suit them, but in the meantime I will use some substitutes from Reaper, Bushido, and elsewhere.

The treasures include several inspiring artifacts. As could be expected, the mechanics for most boil down to a situational bonus. for me, the stand out among the treasures in Gods of Fire is the golden skull, which evokes the theme of Ghost Archipelago and also has the unique effect of making it possible for a heritor or warden to take over an undead monster.

Perhaps saving the best for last, I am going to give a couple of examples of tribes created with the rules in Gods of Fire. First are some Iroquois minis I painted on a whim a couple of years back. Not being much interested in playing out the colonial history of America and lacking other Native Americans for them to fight, they have not had much chance to appear on the table. My Iroquois will take a trip to the Ghost Archipelago.

I am going to use the random tribe generation rules for this group. This means rolling on a chart to see how many positive and negative attributes they have, then rolling on a second chart to randomly determine those attributes. for the number of attributes, I get a result of one positive and one negative. The randomly determined positive attribute is Pain Masters and the negative one is Poor Tool Makers. The end result of this is that they are never counted as wounded but when attacking have a -1 damage modifier and a chance of breaking thier weapons. Not bad for a random selection.

For a second sample tribe I will be using some bronze age Europeans. In this example, I will be assigning them attributes. The rules allow one positive attribute with the option of adding a second at the cost of taking a negative attribute. You are also allowed to assign any number of additional negative attributes, if you wish. I am going to give them the positive attributes Armour Weavers and Demon Binders. In order to balance the second positive, I give them the negative attribute Cursed. So, this tribe makes light armor and can recruit a treelike monster called a scarbark. in the book the light armor is described as made from plants, but I am going to use that attribute to explain the bronze plates some of the figures wear. The Cursed attribute reduces the will of every member of the tribe and makes them count as undead.

I really enjoy the tribe creation rules. It allows for the creation of the varied tribes one reads about in fantasy fiction with out indulging in the unsavory racist attitudes that can be found in some of the literature that influenced fantasy gaming. While at first blush the tribes in Ghost archipelago can have an vague "otherness" that to some degree lumps together several segments of humanity, the tribal attributes gives each one a unique combination of motivations, cultures and technologies that makes them characters and not caricatures in the game.

Thanks to Osprey Games for sending us a review copy of Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago Gods of Fire.

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Today's post shows off the fully painted, customized 40k army that will be available in our silent auction/raffle... This is a custom Space Marine chapter, the Blazing Suns, created by Brian Carlson. This includes the display board! If you'd like to win this fantastic army, make sure to stop by Dragon-Fall in October!!!

Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Over the years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

Child’s Play works in two ways. With the help of hospital staff, we set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, books, and other fun stuff for kids. By clicking on a hospital location on our map, you can view that hospital’s wish list and send a gift.

Child’s Play also receives cash donations throughout the year. With those cash donations, we purchase new consoles, peripherals, games, and more for hospitals and therapy facilities. These donations allow for children to enjoy age-appropriate entertainment, interact with their peers, friends, and family, and can provide vital distraction from an otherwise generally unpleasant experience.

There will be multiple ways to support Child's Play at Dragon-Fall... There will be a $1 raffle with random prizes, and a $10 silent auction/raffle. We are taking prize donations, so please feel free to help us out!

Metal King Studios donated some awesome Relic Blade items.

Corvus Belli donated an Infinity starter box, and some blisters.

Brotherwise donated a full Boss Monster set, including some promo cards!

Brotherwise also donated this copy of their board game, Unearth.

Buried Without Ceremony donated some copies of Monsterhearts 2.

Ataraxay Publishing donated a copy of The Future Belongs To Us players guide.

Jetpack 7 donated some limited edition books.

Legendary Games donated some Pathfinder adventure books.

There is more stuff to announce! Come see us and help raise money for Child's Play at Dragon-Fall!